Boooo, I had such a good idea.

Ah well, as I said, I'll have something up tomorrow.

Well, we are definitely starting the RP early next week. That I know for sure and was going to announce tomorrow. As for the people, including me and @Rockette who don't have characters up, we have 8. I only count the people who have approved characters thus far.

Tomorrow you'll get an official announcement regarding when the RP will start. To answer your question, I don't really have a hard limit because I designed this as a large group RP and I've run large casts before. I think anybody who has been waiting will be pleased by tomorrow's announcement though.

We will start off together in the IC, but there will be times we split into smaller groups.

What about me? Will I still be allowed to join? I'll try to get up a CS soon. I just want it to look good, but have been busy.

What's up people! I've got an announcement to make.

I'll just get straight to it, the roleplay will officially begin on Tuesday of this week. It's the first of my two days off and I feel that by then enough time will have passed since I put up this OOC. Anyone who has shown interest, but has not yet created a character will have today and tomorrow to create a sheet and send it in to me for review. Once Tuesday hits, I will close down joining to new members. I believe two more days should be enough time for anyone who has been mulling over a character or thinking about joining to make a final decision.

Keep the questions coming too. I've actually been pretty impressed with the characters and additions to the world thus far and the questions that have been asked. The way you guys are thinking is great and, of course, it honestly helps me flesh out things I may have forgotten or glossed over in the OP.

Thanks for all the interest shown thus far and I look forward to writing with you all.

EDIT - My character will be up later today as well. Normally, I'm one of the first people with a character up, but between work and reading over the approved characters thus far, I've been a bit busy haha. Seeing how people are taking the time to put real thought into their characters though has also made me want to step it up just a bit.

I'm working on my cs now, hopefully I can get it done before I have to actually get up and start my day :p

Has tea been discovered yet in Zenith?

Lol. I don't see why it couldn't exist. Isn't tea a drink with ancient roots anyways? Ancient eastern roots I suppose... But hell, it's not a big deal hahaha.

I'm working on my CS now as well.
I'm just mostly left with the history/backstory bit!

A few things I have noticed

1. We have a LOT of people from good old Eteria, most of whom from the capital(other than myself)
2. A surprising lack of resentment for the brigands, bandits and sellswords doing all the conscripting, as well as a lack of hate for the God Eaters who helped take it.

I'm just listing things I have noticed, nothing more. Thoug it was interesting enough to mention

I look at it as they just got used to the lifestyle. It's not like Sorei was just taken over. It's been a long time and most of the citizens just got used to living that way.

A few things I have noticed

2. A surprising lack of resentment for the brigands, bandits and sellswords doing all the conscripting, as well as a lack of hate for the God Eaters who helped take it.

I'm just listing things I have noticed, nothing more. Though it was interesting enough to mention

It's possible that Zenith is still in a "renaissance" of sorts.
As icmasticc mentioned, we (in the RP) live in an age where travel is still done on foot/horseback and the flow of news takes a long time. Orders such as The Enclave serve as a repository for the collective sum of human knowledge, so that if an event like The Catastrophe happens again, knowledge of medicine, metallurgy and architecture will not be lost.
We have a parallel in human history - the burning of the Library of Alexandria. All ancient knowledge was essentially wiped out after the library in Alexandria was immolated. It is hard to separate rumors, half-truths and mistranslations from other cultures and even harder if you lose written historical accounts of those rumors.

It may be that The God Eaters actions are viewed as the drunken tales of bards and travelers. Something knights tell each other while drowning in ale, so that the fisherman in the same tavern comes to believe it is just the drunken ramblings of a traumatized warrior.

It's not that The God Eaters are getting a free pass -- rest assured that The Enclave views your organization's actions with pious disgust -- but that people simply assume that the stories of cannibalism are just that, stories. It's hard to upset people if they doubt your organizations existence, (although we have people IRL who are up in arms about an imagined "Illuminati", but aren't particularly upset about the violent criminals in their own cities.)

In an age where it can take a few days for carrier pigeons to deliver a short message or a week's travel by foot to the next nearest city, it is easy to understand how smallfolk and nobles alike would view The God Eaters as a rumor, (the same way biblical people propagandized their enemies by accusing each other of sacrificing babies.) A similar disbelief or denial may plague those who have never met a God Eater. Those in Sorei know the truth, but what about a struggling fisherman from Markovia? Would the seafaring man concern himself with the God Eaters or would he be more concerned with how difficult it is to transport tea leaves to the acolytes of The Enclave in Scion (due to the ICC-Markovia feud?)

Summary: People may be more upset at the state of Eteria than Erickson realizes. ;P

If I was a peasant in Zenith, that's probably how I'd view things. And then I'd get back to farming.

@DOOM TEA
That... is a very good point. I suppose as... disturbing as the God Eaters are and the fact they are but 1 knightly order who probably does not even have 300 knights, it's not surprising that in a place of little communication that they'd be but stories, used to scare disobedient children and liven up the tavern...

Shit that makes us seem WAY scarier! I wish I had thought of this!

Now I'm just imagining Fiona as a little Novus, being terrified of some story an old Preceptor is telling her about these people that look like men, but are actually people-eating monsters that will come and have her for dinner if she doesn't finish her studies on the code before bedtime...

Gah, how does anyone not grow up in this world traumatized?

And soon she will be meeting one of these boogeymen... how deliciously poetic!

I regret to say that I think I will bow out of this game. It's not that I don't like the idea, the story, and all that, but I can't seem to come up with the motivation to make a character I like. If anything, it would be a carbon copy clone of any of the other characters made. You got a nice lot going as it is.

Hope you all have a good time with this. Thanks for putting up with me.

For some reason whenever I think of the God Eaters, I keep thinking of the Titans from Attack on Titan.

@Garden Gnome How so? Haven't seen Attack on Titan in a while. I completely forgot everything that happened in that anime. Was actually planning on rewatching it this week.

Now I'm just imagining Fiona as a little Novus, being terrified of some story an old Preceptor is telling her about these people that look like men, but are actually people-eating monsters that will come and have her for dinner if she doesn't finish her studies on the code before bedtime...

Gah, how does anyone not grow up in this world traumatized?

The human drive to survive is stronger than anything. Usually.

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*Mikhail prepares a warm cup of tea for all our characters, lightly sweetened and with minimal doom*

@DOOM TEA

Maybe it was just the cannibalistic part that made me think about them. I have no idea lol!
It was just the first thing that came to mind when I read the name + cannibalism.

I regret to say that I think I will bow out of this game. It's not that I don't like the idea, the story, and all that, but I can't seem to come up with the motivation to make a character I like. If anything, it would be a carbon copy clone of any of the other characters made. You got a nice lot going as it is.

Hope you all have a good time with this. Thanks for putting up with me.

That's fine FantasyChic, I'm glad to have had your interest. Good luck in your future endeavors--and see you in Requiem hahaha.

I'm soo excited to start ^^

Just one more day @OneWayOut lol. I'm pretty excited myself. I'm actually (finally) writing my own character now too.